From Lenovo's statement [0] it seems that the root kit was not installed on ThinkPads. This somewhat calms me, but I doubt that I can trust Lenovo any more. How

From Lenovo's statement [0] it seems that the root kit was not installed on ThinkPads. This somewhat calms me, but I doubt that I can trust Lenovo any more. How comes that such big Hardware vendors go unpunished after the Superfish and now this? This is unacceptable. It is time for fully open-source hard-ware with physical switches to turn off recording devices like microphones and webcams. [0] http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2013 http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2013 EDIT: added the [0] URL